Carine Roitfeld Quotes

We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.

Carine Roitfeld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
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  • Birth: September 19, 1954

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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

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I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.

Ann Packer

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However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.

Sigmar Gabriel

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Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Silius Italicus

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As president, Trump's economic proposals will bend our very economy and tax system to his purposes.

Tom Steyer

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If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

Joy Page

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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

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In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

Johnny Galecki

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When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.

Brian Chesky

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Almost every person that I had a preconception of, I was wrong. With Edward Teller, I was right. He was an autocrat and a technocrat, with no feeling for humanity.

Brian Grazer

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I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

Armando Iannucci

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